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Green bean purée

Green (or French) beans are usually served whole, for instance as an accompanying vegetable or in a salad, but they make a good purée, too.

This is tasty on its own, but also goes very well with meats, and children usually prefer it to "normal" beans.

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Last modified on: August 11^th 2023

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For 2 kg 400 g, you will need:

1 4 lb + 6.4 oz green beans
2 14.1 oz potatoes
3 3.6 oz butter
4 7.0 oz cream
5 salt
6 pepper

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
13 min.	5 min.	5 min.	23 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 2 min.

Prepare 4 lb + 6.4 oz green beans, reserve.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Peel and slice 14.1 oz potatoes. Boil in the same water until soft.

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Pass the potatoes and beans through a vegetable mill.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

Transfer the purée into a saucepan on low heat.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Use a whisk to mix in 3.6 oz butter and 7.0 oz cream, salt and pepper, then check the seasoning.

Stage 6

Your green bean purée is ready.

Remarks

The potatoes are not essential, but do give the purée a more fluid texture.

Feel free to vary the quantities of cream and butter to suit your own taste.

Keeping

A few days in the fridge, covered with plastic film or in a sealed container. Freezes very well.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,455 Kcal or 10,279 Kj	65 gr	224 gr	144 gr
123 %	25 %	21 %	22 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
91 Kcal or 381 Kj	2 gr	8 gr	5 gr
5 %	1 %	1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk

How much will it cost?

For 2 kg 400 g : 9.90 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Green beans: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie, Grandma's salad, Green bean and potato salad with paprika, Minestrone, Cherry tomato and green bean salad, ... All
	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gratin "grilled inside", Hotpot my grandmother's way , "Day After Pork Belly" Soup, Potato gratin, Super-green, super-thrifty soup, ... All
	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Alpine gratin, Chocolate cream, Apple macaronade, Quartet of brassicas with cream , Hot sesame-cream chicken tartines, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Toasted-flour biscuits, Two-cheese vegetable gratin, Clementine Creamy, Chaud-froid of grapefruit, pineapple and lime custard , Celeriac and sesame soup, ... All

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